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Charles Sumner: “Another question may also be asked: If Slavery be, as Earl Russell declared, “one of the most horrible crimes that yet…”

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Another question may also be asked: If Slavery be, as Earl Russell declared, “one of the most horrible crimes that yet disgrace humanity,” how could England make any concession to Rebels whose single declared object of separate existence was this very crime?
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner critiques England's concessions to the Confederacy by referencing Earl Russell's condemnation of slavery.

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